1．When it comes to hard，noisy traveling，we've found that sometimes we'd rather read about it than actually go．Here are some bestsellers for armchair travelers．
The Station by Robert Byron．In 1928，the 22-year-old man made a journey to Mount Athos，resulting in one of the best travel books ever written，matched only by Byron's own，much more famous The Road to Osciana．
In Darkest Africa by Henry Monton Stanley．It's about his great efforts to save an unlucky German doctor Eduard Schnitzer，who had no desire to be rescued at all．
A Traveler's Alphabet：Partial Memoirs by Sir Steven Runciman．A to Z and around the world．He provides priceless information of long-gone princesses，priests，and places．
South：A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Sir Ernest Shackleton．As the planet started the global war，Shackleton and his brave group of explorers made an unsuccessful but heroic journey to cross Antarctica from 1914to 1917．
The Michelin Red Guide：France 2005 Reading through this final listing of all the nice hotels and wonderful restaurants in France is better than going there，listening to Chirac talk about the poisonous American culture，and spending the price of this book for a tiny cup of tea and a cookie the size of your thumb．
The Past Is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal．This great book of an armchair exploration tells us what has happened in the past and shows the relationship between us and the past travelers．

31．The underlined phrase"armchair travelers"in the first paragraph refers to those
whoD．
A．can only travel with special equipment for the disabled
B．find fun teaching others how to travel to other places
C．like to write about their strange traveling experiences
D．like to read about travels instead of traveling themselves
32．Which of the books has a very low price according to the passage？C
A．The Past Is a Foreign Country．
B．South：A Memoir to the Endurance Voyage．
C．The Michelin Red Guide：France 2005．
D．A Traveler's Alphabet：Partial Memoirs．
33．What can we learn from the passage？D
A．The Station is more famous than The Road to Osciana
B．Henry Monton Stanley，was saved by a German doctor in Africa．
C．It took Shackleton and his men 3years to cross Antarctica．
D．In his book，Lowenthal focuses more on history than the present．
34．This passage is writtenB．
A．to warn readers against traveling
B．to sell more books about travels
C．a(chǎn)s an introduction to famous travelers
D．to tell people where to travel．

分析 文章向讀者介紹幾本有關(guān)旅行的書籍．告訴我們當(dāng)遇到困難、嘈雜的旅行，有時候，我們寧愿選擇通過閱讀相關(guān)書籍來達到旅行的目的．

解答 31．D．推斷預(yù)測題．根據(jù)第一行"we'd rather read about it than actually go"可知，文章講的是一些關(guān)于旅行的暢銷書，劃線部分指的是通過閱讀來感受他人旅行的過程，而不是親自踏上旅途，故選D．
32．C．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)The Michelin Red Guide：France 2005這段的"for a tiny cup of tea and a cookie the size of your thumb"可知，這本書只需要一杯茶或拇指大的一塊餅干的價錢，故選C．
33．D．細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)"matched only by Byron's own，much more famous The Road to Osciana"排除A；根據(jù)"In Darkest Africa by Henry Monton Stanley．It's about his great efforts to save an unlucky German doctor"排除B；根據(jù)"cross Antarctica from 1914 to 1917"排除C；根據(jù)最后一段"what has happened in the past…"可知，Lowenthal主要講的是過去所發(fā)生的事情，故選D．
34．B．主旨大意題．根據(jù)文章大意可知，文章主要介紹了幾本關(guān)于旅行的書籍，文章提倡的是通過閱讀來旅行，文章并未提醒讀者反對旅行，文章介紹的是這些書籍的作者，而不是有名的旅行家，文章并未給讀者指出旅行的路線，排除A、C、D，故選B

點評 本文考察學(xué)生文學(xué)作品類閱讀水平．此類文章閱讀要注意文中具體細節(jié)的把握與理解，弄清作者所傳達的實際信息及表達的具體內(nèi)容．閱讀時采取速讀與精讀相結(jié)合的方法，力求快速精確地查出試題所設(shè)置的關(guān)鍵內(nèi)容．

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